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We are excited to host a satellite colloquium talk by Shota Momma (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) on August 11, following the MAPLL-TCP-TL 2024 on August 10-11. This colloquium will be held at the same venue as MAPLL-TCP-TL 2024. There will be no registration fee for this colloquium. Everyone is welcome!

There is no registration fee associated with this satellite colloquium, and everybody is welcome. (There is a registration fee for the MAPLL-TCP-TL 2024 conference itself.)

Satellite colloquium

--August 11th, Sunday
Hosted by KCP
in conjunction with MAPLL-TCP-TL 2024
Venue: Kwansei Gakuin U, Building G, Room G-301.
See here for details about the venue
14:00-15:00     Shota Momma (UMass, Amherst)
"Message-syntax mapping in sentence production: a view from ellipsis priming"
[Abstract]
Sentence production involves translating a 'message' into a syntactic structure. However, the nature of message representation remains largely unknown. In this talk, I attempt to shed light on the nature of message representations by examining the production of verb phrase ellipsis in English (e.g., "Toma ate a cake, and Mei did, too"). I report a series of recall-based production experiments showing that the decision to elide a verb phrase can be primed and that various kinds of event anaphoric expressions, distinct from verb phrase ellipsis, can prime verb phrase ellipsis. Critically, this cross-constructional priming effect was selectively observed when the constituent referred back to by an event anaphora in prime sentences expresses "eventuality" (a super-category of event and state that does not yet have spatial or temporal information) and not when it expresses a 'situation' (event/state located in time and space) or a 'proposition.' Based on these results, I argue that sentence production involves (a) representing events/states as entities devoid of temporal and spatial information and (b) deciding whether to use an event anaphora to express them.

MAPLL-TCP-TL 2024 program

*Registeration fee applies for this event: See here*
The Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) workshop was first launched in early 2000 as a forum intended to foster research on human sentence processing and related areas. It has been an important event for researchers interested in psycholinguistics and the cognitive neuroscience of language. It was held at Hiroshima University, the University of Tokyo, Yamagata University, Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Kyushu University, Tsuda College, Waseda University, The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics and Keio University.
--August 10th, Saturday
13:00-13:10     Opening remarks
13:10-     相良陸成 (静岡県立大)・寺尾光一郎・岩橋直人 (岡山県立大)
「ネステッド・フィジカル・ビリーフ・モデルと大規模言語モデルによる共同行為プランニング」
13:40-     Yoko Nakano (KGU)
"A Role of Orthography in Word Roots and Suffixes in Morpho-Orthographic Decomposition in Japanese"
14:10-     Mikihiro Tanaka (Rits U)
"The Influence of Conceptual and Structural Priming in Translation"
14:40-14:50     Break
14:50-     Miki Ishihara, Kentaro Nakatani (Konan U)
"The effect of SOA on lexical decision in Japanese and English -- A pilot study --"
15:20-     Edson T. Miyamoto (Future U Hakodate)
"Memory costs in the comprehension of prenominal relative clauses in Japanese"
16:00-     Edward Gibson (MIT) [Plenary talk]
"The rational basis of syntax and syntactic processing"
18:00-     Reception: Register here!


--August 11th, Sunday
11:00     Fumio Ozawa, Manabu Arai, Yumiko Mizusawa (Seijo U)
"Effect of pronunciation training using Automatic speech recognition on L2 learners' listening comprehension"
11:30-     Chuyu Huang (Nagoya Gakuin U), Changyun Moon (Tsukuba U)
"Pitch Perception and Its Relationship with Accent Systems in Japanese Dialects"
12:00-13:00     Break
13:00-     Yukiko Koizumi, Ryuki Yanagiyama (Yamagata U)
"Can we train L2 perceivers to access 'non-structural' cues in scope ambiguity processing?: The case of 'not-because' ambiguity in English "
13:30-     Itsuki Minemi (Rits U), Takayuki Kimura (Utsunomiya U), Takaaki Hirokawa (Fukui U), Yu Tamura (Kansai U), Junya Fukuta (Chuo U)
"Immunity to agreement attraction in native and non-native language comprehension"
14:00-     [Satellite colloquium] Shota Momma (UMass, Amherst)
"Message-syntax mapping in sentence production: a view from ellipsis priming"
15:00-15:05     Closing remarks
(Click here for the official TL website)